Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin drawing half pay from the insurance fund or $15 a week, whichever is less. This payment should continue from 15 to 25 weeks depending on how long the beneficiary had been previously employed. After 25 weeks insurance payments should end and the unemployed person should go on work relief...
...articles he started to write for the Saturday Evening Post the moment President Roosevelt accepted his resignation as NRAdministrator. In an impatient opening salvo last fortnight the redoubtable General raked the whole New Deal front, advising President Roosevelt to alter or reverse his fiscal, monetary, tax, labor, industrial, relief, agricultural, foreign trade and recovery policies. "I firmly believe" wrote he, "that, if steps were taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing policy of the Federal Government beyond the shadow of doubt, this depression would be relegated to the limbo of forgotten things in three months' time...
...President Roosevelt to spend $4,000,000,000 as he sees fit to provide jobs for 3,500,000 employables now on relief rolls...
...Expenditure of $880,000,000 of unexpended funds for direct relief until the new works program is in full swing...
...could produce houses for the masses of people at a 25 per cent reduction," he declared, "this depression would be over speedily." He supported the Administration's plan to carry out their housing program through the use of relief money...